Liberty

"OVER the past two centuries many legends, myths, misconceptions, and palpable error have clustered about the Declaration of Independence... All of them, including the signed and engrossed copy, share in common the fact that they are derivatives of the prototype which was adopted by Congress on the evening of July 4, 1776, and which unhappily disappeared from history almost at the moment of its creation." - Historian Julian Boyd, commissioned to write "The Mystery of The Lost Original" by the 1976 bi-centennial Commission. THIS docudrama "Ages of Independence" believes Boyd's summary is incorrect and Mike Church's audio feature proves it.

Patrick Henry’s public life is an exciting, inspirational and uniquely American story that is unfortunately nearly unknown, until now. Patrick Henry-American Statesman takes you on a biographical thrill ride. Edited with new content "Patrick Henry in Art-Mistaken Identity" by Mike Church

"In 1971 it happened, and that’s when I started speaking out [about the Fed.] Really nobody listened. There were a lot of seeds planted about sound money, especially by Murray and others, and Mises. They talked about this. There was no audience out there. I would go to campuses, when I first went into Congress, and I would get 20 or 30 people come out and maybe convert one or two."

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Audio & Transcript - Check out Mike's exclusive interview with Congressman Ron Paul right here. They discuss the continuation of the GOP campaign, debating Mitt Romney, the building debt crisis, the Secret Service scandal and much, much more. Listen to a highlight of the interview and read the transcript for the entire interview!

"This is another interesting point of discussion when we talk about this. Exactly what is a State? Is a State a geographical entity? Well, you could say that you call the State of Georgia, for example, Georgia because of the border it has with Tennessee and South Carolina and Alabama and Florida, which are very well-defined and well-known, but does that make it a State or is that just a boundary where that State ends and the next State begins?"

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Audio and Transcript - Here's a special one for you: Mike's full speech from LPAC in both audio and text format! Don't feel like reading? Listen to the audio! Can't listen to the audio at work? Read the text! As usual, Mike has some great things to say about the NSA/FBI/CIA and any other Federal department with three letters. There's also a great story about Ben Franklin and an ass at the end (pun intended) so be sure and stick around!

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - There’s a difference between sincere patriotism and nationalism. I’ll take a stab at it and I will channel Claes Ryn to do so. This is just a brilliant little eight-paragraph essay on Patriotism, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism. This is from Professor Ryn's book The New Jacobinism, which you can find a link to on Amazon on this page, here's an excerpt of what he wrote... Check out the rest of the transcript for the rest...

The Police State, practically speaking, was alive and well in Sarasota FL a few nights ago. The fact that the US Marshalls operate on the belief that citizens know who they are and what their supreme powers

Mandeville, LA - Since the day the Washington Beacon published its cherry picked "expose" of Senator Rand Paul's Social Media Director Jack Hunter, it has become fashionable to lay your soul bare as 1 in league with the abolitionists of the 1850's. Tom Woods feted this act of self-piety recently pointing out:

I just stop sometimes, I just marvel, seriously marvel at what liberty has created on these shores. We have things that no civilization in the history of Earth, hell, in the known universe, going all the way back to the cantina bar on Tatooine, or Dantooine. No one has had access to the stuff that Americans take for granted. And all you have to do is go to a birthday party to see it on display. You have every manner of food that you could imagine. Every manner of it. You got chicken, you got fajitas, you got pulled pork, you got briskets, you got hot dogs, you got hamburgers. Not only do you have hotdogs and hamburgers, there are 35,000 different ways to get hotdogs and hamburgers. If you’re kosher, you can get a kosher frank. If you’re not, you can get an Oscar Mayer frank. You want hamburgers, you can make them yourself. You can buy Bubba burgers already pre-frozen. You could go to your local deli. They may be stamping them out, nice little cubed out round portions and what have you. It’s just amazing the things you can get.

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Your care, the care of your life, your freedom to negotiate a deal that might bankrupt you, true, but would save your life, your freedom to do that isn’t worth the piece of paper that you would sign it away for in the eyes of those people that live inside that 10-mile square. And they’re aghast that you’ve figured this out. They have been running roughshod over you and I, you and me, for seven decades now. They’ve taken over our schools and ruined them. They’ve taken over our institutions and told us that our institutions don’t represent what we thought that they do. They have rendered our documents irrelevant. They have bastardized our founders. They have taught us history that never was history. Check out today's post for the rest of the transcript...

Back to Mr. Herbert Meyer, who was, in case you’re wondering what his pedigree is, this is the guy that wrote the piece “Revolution” that I’ve been reading you the last 12 minutes. Herbert Meyer served during the Reagan administration as a special assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and vice chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council. He holds the U.S. National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal award, which is the intelligence community’s highest honor. He is also an author. So just so you’ll know.

Mandeville, LA - Since the subject of "Profit and Plunder" keeps coming up on the radio show and since I keep referring to Bastiat's brilliant essay on the subject, I have gathered the open source material from Bastiat's works and am posting part of his book "The Law" here to inform listeners and visitors on the subject. If you'd like to read the book online it can be found here and I am embedding an amazon.com link to it in this post as well.

I will concede, and I will hope that the U.S.’s involvement in the Middle East come to a grinding halt as it applies to our financing of this regime or that regime, and our funding of keeping the Straits of Hormuz open, and the use of our Navy to ensure that the Saudi sheikhs continue to be able to purchase tin-plated or nickel-plated Audi A6s and new palaces to build around. But I think it’s wrong. I think it’s long overdue that we turn ourselves inward and that we explore for and find our own energy, and we stop playing world super ocean policemen. Do we need a Navy? Absolutely. We need to make sure that our stuff can arrive safely. That’s the purpose of the Navy. And that we can defend our shores against a foreign invasion. Sure, we need a Navy. So I’ll concede that. But he’s not talking about that. That’s not what he’s talking about. He’s talking about, well, no, that we’ve got to give them a chance.

The reason why this animates me and sets me off is because this idea, this idea is at the heart of the cancer. That guy that called me last hour is evidence of the left’s success. The guy that said, “Eh, Kennedy says that ask not what you can do for your — what your government can do for you, what you can do for your government. And the only reason I’m able to drive this truck around the country is because of our government and how wonderful it is, this and that and the other.” That guy had it exactly backwards, that the government created prosperity, it did no such thing; that the government created freedom, it did no such thing; that the government created opportunity, it did and does no such thing. It infringes on opportunity. It infringes on freedom. It is there specifically for — or it is there to execute specific purposes, specific initiatives. It has specific objectives, that it was agreed in Philadelphia in 1787.

On Friday's radio show on Sirius/XM a caller asked me about reciting the Pledge of allegiance at the start of his day with his sons. I informed him that the "Pledge of Allegiance" was written by a Socialist by the name of Francis Bellamy.

The Hayek loving, Libertarian, [r]epublican populace erupts in shock and anger at Senator Rand Paul's comments to Fox Business News (video posted at end of this article) on the use of drones against American citizens.

On today's Mike Church Show the question arose as to whether the "Tea Party" was using the term "conservative" to sell memberships, products, convention attendance or promote a lifestyle? Mike told producer "AG" that the answer was the former, "AG" then asked if "Libertarians" were thus the new "conservatives".

Mandeville, LA - By Mike Church - When the White House responded to Michael E.'s "Peaceful Secession from Union" petition they quoted Lincoln as the historian of record for the view that "there is no right to walk away" [from the Union]. That's a historically ignorant statement seeing as how abolitionist Yankee Senators and citizens alike who ultimately would call Southerners "traitors", agitated for and promoted "secession as a duty" as late as 1861.